In keeping along with our last counseling tip, here is a great blog article about mindful eating in diabetes by author Michelle May, PhD. I had the opportunity to listen to her lecture at FNCE on this same topic (Eat What You Love with Diabetes: How to Use the Mindful Eating Cycle for Self-Management) last year, and here are some key points from that lecture : There are several eating cycles, consisting of questions, "Why-->When-->What-->How-->How Much-->Where-->Why". There is the instinctive eating cycle, where one may eat what they want with the intention of eating to survive. There is the overeating cycle, where one may eat what they want because of emotional, physical or environmental triggers such as stress, fear, boredom or because of the cost of the food. At this point, Michelle posed an interesting question, "How many people would feel like they had to finish eating something they weren't necessarily hungry fo